Mechanical toy



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P. K. WILLIAMS MECHANICAL TOY Filed March 17 1923 FIBIS a l/vvz-wro/a PETER KiWI'LLIAMS Patented Aug. 5, 1924.

PETER K. WILLIAMS, OE COLUMBUS, OHIO.

MECHANICAL TOY.

Application filed March 17, 1923. Serial No. 625,754.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER K. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in,

Mechanical Toys, of which the following is a specification. 3

My present invention relates generally to toys and more particularly to the class of figured toys, my object being the provision of a small mechanicaland musical toy representative of the wellknown organ grinder and his monkey, and-a further object is the provision of a simple inexpensive toy of this nature which will be strong and durable and which embodies spring actuated means for bringin about the desired movement of the several movable parts.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the complete toy,

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section through the box substantially along the line 3-3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 1s a transverse vertical section through the box substantially along the line H of Figure 3,

Figures 5, 6 and 7 are vertical sectional views through the movable figure supporting. and actuating means, and 7 Figures 8, 9 and 10, are detail diagram- .matic views illustratin thea ctuatingeccentrio in different positions.

Referring now to these figures and particularly to'Figures 1 and 2, I propose a toy including among other things a music box 10 representative of the usual hand organ,

attached to one side of which and adjacent to one end is an upright Figure 11 of a man, representative of the organ grinder, having the legs of this figure below the box 10 and terminating in spaced apart feet 12 which, with the single depending leg 13 of the box 10 form the necessary three point support for the toy as a whole.

Q It will also be noted from Figures 1 and 2 that there is mounted upon the box a movable Figure 14 representative of a monkey andthat the body of the Figure 11 repre-.

sentative of the organ grinder is slotted at its upper portion to pivotally support an intermediately 'slotted leverol5, one angular end is pivoted at 36 within the on an incline and forms one arm of a figure,

the lower extremity of this latter end movably engaging a crank 17 so that the Figure 11 thus appears to bein the act of turning the handle of an organ during rotation of the crank 17, the arm 15 as well as the head 16 swinging during this movement.

Within the box lOthere is certain mechanism shown particularly in Figure Land including a spring motor 18 upon a shaft 19 actuated for winding purposes by an externally projecting key 20, and connected by large and small gears 21 and 22 to a shaft 23 upon which the small gear 22 is mounted. This latter shaft is connected by gears 24 and 25 to the crank shaft 26 upon the outer end of which the before mentioned crank 17 is mounted and this crank shaft 26 has upon its inner end a worm 27 engaging the form wheel 28 upon the shaft29 of the musical apparatus, which may be of any desired type, as for instance the well known toothed cylinder indicated at 30, operating against tuned spring fingers 31. There is also mounted on the shaft 23 intermediate the ends of the latter, an eccentric disc 32 having an eccentric groove for the control and actuation of a lever 34- hest seen in Figure 3. This lever is provided at one end with a roller 35 disposed in the eccentric groove 33 and its opposite box 10. Intermediate its ends the lever 34 is flexibly connected by a link 37 to one end of an actuating lever 38 whose opposite end is curved and provided with an arcuate slot 39.

Through the top of the box 10 a vertical bearing tube 40 depends, that portion of the bearing tube within the box 10 having a verticalj slot 4L1 outwardly through which a guide'pin 42 extends into the slot 39 of the actuating lever. This I guide pin projects laterally from the lower end of an actuating ste'm43 disposed upright in the bearing tube 10' and projecting substantially above the latter, with its upper portion flattened and spirally twisted as at 4A in order to provide for'the rotation of an elongated sleeve 45 10 and to which the body 14 of the monkey is attached. This sleeve 45 has its lower end closed except for a slot of a width adapted to slidably receive the flattened and twisted portion as of the actuating stem, and the lower end of the sleeve is;movable in a relatively short and larger sleeve 46 through the base of which the stem 44 is freely shiftable in the direction of its length and rotatable. c

The body 14 of the monkey-like figur consists of two side plates upon opposite sides of which angular arms 47 are fulcrumed as at 48, the upper outer ends of these arms having hands 49 supporting a hatv whichupon swinging o f the 'arms 47 upon their fulcrum v43 is shifted aboveand forwardly beyond the :head of the Figure 14 as seen; by a comparison of the full and dotted lines in Figure 5.

The lower ignneruendsof the arms .47 are Lconnected bye pin .51 Which passes t-hmng arcuateslots 52 in the body of the'Figure 14, this pin 51 being movably engaged the upper end of a connecting rod 53 depending between the side plates forming'the body 14,

.onecf which at the nearside of'the figu e is removed in Figures 5 and 6, and is movably engaged at its lower end with a pin 54 extending through lowerarc-uateslots in the body 14 of the figure. Between the side plates of the Figure 14 the pin 54 is {movably engaged by the inner arm 56 of the tail 57,, the latter of which is fulcrumed at 58, and outwardly beyond the sides of the body 14, the pin 54 movably engaged with iii the upper endsiof legs 59 whose lower ends are pivotally connected at 60 to diametrically opposite points of the lower outer sleeve 46. 7

Thus in, operation when the spring motor 18 is wound, its action is to rotate shaft .19

and actuate shaft 23 through the gears 21 and 22. Shaft 23 in turn actuates the crank shaft 26 through the gears 24 and 25 and thus th musical parts, for instance the elements 30 and 31 are placed in action and the crank 17 rotated, which latter cause'sswinging movement of one arm 15 and the head 16 of theFignre 11 attached to the box 10.

At the same time rotation of shaft 23 actuates the eccentric disc 32 and, through lever 34 and c( nnecting rod 37, the actuatinglever 38 will have its outer slotted end 39 raised and lowered, it being noted that the shape of the eccentric groove '33 is suchthat during eachcomplete rotation of disc 32, thefilotted end 39 ,of the actuating lever will be twice raised and lowered and will be elevated to the same point during each upward mowe e it and will d ing one lo ing m veeat pro eed to a lower level th n during the other ow rineme e t. Thu wh n he roller 35 is at ithe ofthe points marked A in, Figu e 3 and s own a in. F gure- 8,

the slo ted end 39. of the actuating lever will be a he poni oi neXi-mum liftthe,

roller 35 is at the poi i -figure some: pee hes athe msiticn. .s mwn'.:in e i lea the slotted end 39' will be at the lowest point' of lowering-movement whilewhenithe roller tuating stem 43 are at the upperrlimit of their movement, furtherirotation of the disc 32 inthe direction "of the arrowFigure 3 Will start movement of the stem 43 'in a downward direction. The initial result of this movement will be to draw the upper sleeve 45 downwardly as far as it will gointo the sleeve-46 and thus against the'base of the t r a 19m i F gm fia'h r h spir lly twistejd portion 144 commences to rotate the sleeve :45 and it likewisenb: vious that during this downwardmovement Of the sleeve 45th:: 'bo'dyf14 will also be shifted downwardly land the transverse pins 51 and .54 will be forced upwardly in the arcuate slots 52 and 55 so that the tail 57 will be lowered and the arms 47 shifted to swingthe-hatx50 forwardly beyond the Figure 14 to the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 5. During continued rotation of the disc 32:3;11fll the movement of the roller 35 in the eccentric groove from the point A to the point B of Figure 3, the ,sleeve45 will after the lowering movement just above .de- '7 scribed, continue to rotate as thespiral portie 44 of the stem descends through the base of the sleeve and during thigs rotation of the sleeve 45 the Figure 14 will continue to swing in a circle, sleeve .46 rotating with the same by virtue of its freedom ofmovement around the stem 43. i the roller 35 reaches the point B of the eccentric groove. and proceeds from this point ,to the point, A, the slotted outer end 39 of the actuating lever and consequently the stem 43 start the initial .upwand clmo-vement and rat the commencement of this movement it obvious that ,the sleeve .45 first be forced 11pwardly to the position of Figure 5 constituting the limit ,of its upwalid movementby virtue of i 33 attachment to the Figure 14. During this movement the tail. 57 will he eleyate d and the hat 50 shifted to the. P QSition shown in Figure 3 and in an lines in Figure 5 and during the further upward movement of the stem until point A is reached, the sleeue 45 along with the Figure 14 and the iie4 will be mt t 'i a everse direction to the-preceding rotation.

Wh n-tee p i t 4 s Pa i esdbe we this point and the -;peint}C1the stem 4.3will be lQWQFfi to a siiliieieiit exten 5 15 5 9W h s end q n e lle llg fil sF- illli 1%,

has been passed and between this point and the point A the sleeve and the figure will be raised so that the parts will be restored to the position shown in Figure 3 and in full lines in Figure 5.

Thus during alternate downward movements of the actuating stem the figure will become animated in a vertical direction and will also be caused to swing around the stem, and during the other alternate downward movements the figure will merely be animated in a vertical direction without such swinging movement or rotation it being obvious that these several movements take place during animation of the movable parts of the supporting figure and also during action of the musical parts.

The toy as a whole will thus be highly amusing and the means by which movement of the parts is produced are, considering the nature of the movements, comparatively simple and will be strong and durable in operation'.

I claim:

1. A self-supporting toy of the character described including a boX having internal music producing means and a pendent sup porting leg, a figure disposed upright adjacent and attached to the box, having pendent legs cooperating with the pendent supporting leg of the box and forming therewith a three-point contact to permit the figur to stand in an upright position without additional support, said figure also having movable parts including an arm, a figure movable vertically and rotatable on the box and simulating a monkey, and mechanism within the box for simultaneously actuating the last mentioned figure operating the said music producing means and shifting the movable parts of the supporting figure as described.

2. A self-supporting toy of the character described including an upright figure having movable parts, a box attached to the figure having internal musical parts, said box having a single supporting leg and said figure having a pair or supporting legs coacting with the leg of the box andforming therewith a thre point supporting contact to hold the toy u right without further support, a movable figure on the box simulating a monkey and means within the box for simultaneously actuating the last mentioned figure, the musical means within the box and the movable parts of the first mentioned figure as described. 7

In a toy, a support, a spirally twisted stem rising above the support, means within the support .ci shifting the stem vertically without rotating the same, a tubular figure holder rotatable around the stem having a slot in its lower end through which the stem shifts, a figure rotatable with said holder and in movable connection therewith, and a member movable on the lower portion of the stem and with which the said figure is also in movable connection.

4:. In a toy, a support, a spirally twisted stem rising above the support, means within the support for shitting the stem vertically without rotating the same, a tubular figure holder rotatable around the stem having a slot in its lower end through which the stem shifts, a figure rotatable with said holder and having a body provided with upper and lower slots, arms fulcrumed on the body whose outer ends are swingable above the body, a hat supported by said outer ends, a pin connecting the inner ends of the arms and extending through the upper slots, a sleeve around the lower portion of the stem, legs depending from the body oi the figure and pivotally connected at their lower ends to said sleeve, a pin connecting the upper ends of said legs and extending through the lower slots, and links connecting the leg and arm pins, as described.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

PETER K. WILLIAMS. 

